Machine for burnishing and polishing boots and shoes



(No Model.)

J. O. NEWTON & O. D; GILMAN.

MACHINE I'OR BURNISHING AND POLISHING BOOTS AND SHOES. No. 250,383. Patented Dec. 6,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, JOHN C. NEWTON, OF EAST BRIDGEWATER, AND O. DUDLEY GILMAN, OF

ROOKLAND, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR BURNISHING AND POLISHING BOOTS A ND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,383, dated December 6, 1881.

Application filed June 17, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN G. NEWTON and O. DUDLEY GILMAN, citizens of the United States, residing respectively at East Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and at Rockland, in the county and State aforesaid, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Polishing and Burnishing Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification. 7

Our invention relates to machines used for smoothing, polishing, and burnishiug the sole, top lift, and rand-channels ofboots and shoes, the object being to produce all of these effects by a simple, compact machine. We obtain this object by mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is an elevation of our machine, one of the steam-pipe couplings being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a cross vertical section on line was of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a variety of polishing-tools to be used as desired.

In the drawings, Figs.1 and 2, Arepresents the frame and bed of the machine, and B the shaft, which is made hollow and has couplings G and C at its ends for the purpose of allowing the flow of steam through it, D and D being induction and eduction pipes for the steam. The couplings O and O consist ofa thimble, E, Fig. 1, which screws onto the end of the shaft B, and is held in place by a setscrew, E. This thimble E embraces a flange, F, made on the pipe D, as shown in section in Fig. 1, a suitable packing beingintroduced between the end of the pipe D and shaftB, so as to make a steam-tight joint.

H is the driving-pulley, by the aid of which the shaft receives its motion.

K is the heel-key, its object being to smooth and shape the parts which constitute the mud 0 channel. 7

L is a brush-wheel, affixed to the shaft B.

M is a smooth cylindrical roll which slips onto the shaft B, and .is made to revolve with it by means of a spline, a, Fig. 2. N is a cor- 5 rugated barrel shaped roll. These rolls M and N may be removed from the shaft B, and any of the rolls P, Q, and R(shown in Fig.3) may be substituted for them. The roll P is barrel-shaped, but smooth upon its surface. The roll Q is cylindrical and corrugated, the roll R beingspool-shaped and havingasmooth surface. The rolls all fit the shaft B and are used in turn as required by the character of the work to be done.

By our invention we are enabled to have a single compact machine which by a slight manipulation may be made to do a great variety of work. These different rolls M N P Q R are made in different shapes and with different working-surfaces for the purpose of adapting them to fit and work upon surfaces of different charactersthat is, plain, convex, or concave, as the case may be.

Having fully described our invention, what we desire to claim, and secure by Letters Patcut, is-- In a polishing and burnishing machine, the combination of a hollow shaft, B, couplings O O, and steam-pipes D D, with the polishingrolls M N, brush-wheelL, and circular heel-key K, all arranged and operating substantiallyas described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN G. NEWTON. O. DUDLEY GILMAN.

Witnesses:

AMOS HUNTING, WM. H. OSBORNE. 

